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AWARENESS STRATEGIES FOR POLLUTION FROM INDUSTRIE

NATIONAL KAPODOSTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY

Who we are

• ASPIS has started as a European Project in 1993 and it has realized a cluster of actions (ASPIS I and ASPIS II) with the aim to inform and raise awareness of decision makers on environmental issues (civil servants, engineers, medical doctors, lawyers and journalists).

• ASPIS has developed to a ‘tool of decision making’. It is based at the

TRans European Environmental Educational Health Network (TREEE Health Net)

that was launched in 1994 following an initiative of the University of Athens collaborating at first with the University of Liverpool and since 1996 with the Free University of Brussels.

Since 1997 ASPIS is an official IFMSA-project and

the longer lasting one!

: collection, evaluation and dissemination of all the information that

are related to the impact of the environment on health dissemination and interpretation of information to decision makers educating people at the health sector who are in the public realm of

issues that are dealing with environmental decision making offering advice via direct communication, exchange of ideas and

information among people who are involved in environmental issues

that have impact on health development of continuing education and life long learning

development of distance learning

The scope of the ASPIS project

ASPIS has opened a new activity:

AREHNA (Awareness Raising on Environmental Health

among Non expert Advisors)

AREHNA has a three-year frame. The University of Athens closely collaborating

with the University of Brussels will coordinate it and the University of Liverpool, based on

their personal experience, and with Universities and research centers in

France, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.

Information on pollution related diseases will be selected from all

participating countries in a designed for this purpose protocol and will be

organized in a database.

Furthermore information from existing databases and projects

(APHEIS, EUROHEIS, EUROSTAT, EUROCAT etc) will be identified and linked with the

AREHNA’s database.

Selected information falling under the three topics addressed in interactive

seminars one each year: 

• 1) Mobility pollution related diseases• 2) Fertility problems in relation to the

environment• 3)Congenital diseases related to pollution

Activity backgroundActivity background• Delphi, 31/8-5/9/1996, Greece Mother-to-child pollution Pesticides as bulk

chemical pollutants Education awareness strategy Waste disposal and the ‘precautionary principle’ under European law

• Brussels 11/1/1997, Belgium “Water pollution”• Liverpool 24-25/3/1997, United Kingdom " Pollutant mixtures”• Auditorium of the Association of Greek Journalists based in Athens

17/4/1997Greece " The Press and the management of the scientific information that concerns the influence of the environment on health”

• Old University of Athens, Plaka 15/6/1998,Greece Seminar on “Environment and Health” Medical students’ presentations on environmental issues

• Kos Island 12-14/11/1998 Greece European Seminar on “Health impacts of waste management policies”

• Kos Island 16-23/5/1999,Greece Weekly seminar “Environment and Health” organized for Swiss learning the Greek language deriving mostly from pharmaceutical industry of Basel, Switzerland

• Kos Island, 2-4/9/1999, Greece European Seminar with the participation of experts from the USA on “Endocrine Disruptors and their implications on human health

• Kos island 7-9/9/2000 ”Seminar with international participation under the title:“Is cancer a predominantly environmental disease?”

• Athens 14/6/2002 “Health impacts of waste management, Gastrointestinal tract and respiratory system”

• Lesbos Island 10/8/2002 “Information on environmental issues”• Kos island 3-5/5/2003 Mobility and health • Kos island7-9/5/2004 Environmental impact on Fertility

• In the 5th century BC, Kos was taken by the Persians, but after their defeat in mainland Athenian League (479 BC). In 460 BC, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, whose name is known throughout the world, since he was the founder of the first school of medicine, was born in Kos. After his death (357 BC), the people of Kos built the famous Asklepeion, in honour of the god Asklepios, which operated as a hospital, admitting thousands of patients from all over the Mediterranean and applying the methods of therapy taught by Hippocrates.

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